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Tuesday, December 25, 2012

Side-Tracking the Gun Debate

Author: striker57
The NRA and it’s allies are very good at side-tracking the media
coverage of the real issues around semi-automatic weapons and 30-round
magazines. Just take a look at what they have been able to generate as
“news” while the the final funerals for victims of Sandy Hook are being
conducted and 2 NY Fire Fighters were killed by a by an individual using
a Bushmaster assault weapon:

A White House petition
calling for the deportation of CNN personality Piers Morgan, a U.K.
citizen, over his recent comments criticizing U.S. gun laws rocketed
past the 25,000 signatures it needed for an official response Monday.As of this writing, nearly 40,000 people had signed a
petition demanding “Mr. Morgan be deported immediately for his effort to
undermine the Bill of Rights and for exploiting his position as a
national network television host to stage attacks against the rights of
American citizens.” A petition on the White House’s “We the People” website
needs 25,000 signatures in the first month of being posted to earn an
official administration response.andMorgan isn’t the only news anchor with a White House petition aimed at him. A petitionto
arrest “Meet the Press” host David Gregory for possession of a
high-capacity rifle magazine had more than 2,000 signatures on Monday.While interviewing
National Rifle CEO Wayne LaPierre last week, Gregory held up a 30-round
magazine to ask if it should be banned. The cartridge is illegal in
Washington, D.C.

The head of the NRA, Wayne LaPierre, also blamed
the entertainment industry, among others, for contributing to violence
in the U.S. He cited “blood-soaked slasher films like ‘American Psycho’
and ‘Natural Born Killers.’”“Isn’t fantasizing about killing people as a way to get your
kicks really the filthiest form of pornography?” LaPierre said. “In a
race to the bottom, media conglomerates compete with one another to
shock, violate and offend every standard of civilized society by
bringing an ever-more-toxic mix of reckless behavior and criminal
cruelty into our homes — every minute of every day of every month of
every year.”So far it’s unclear what caused 20-year-old Adam Lanza to
shoot 26 people to death at Sandy Hook, before killing himself. There’s
no evidence that shows Lanza was influenced by violent TV and movies,
though the AP has said he reportedly enjoyed playing the popular game
“Call of Duty.”

LYNN — A former National Rifle Association
executive vice president and Lynn native said “restrictions on the
freedoms” of mentally ill individuals need to be discussed and
established in the wake of the Newtown school massacre.“One
start is to address the part of the mentally ill. There must be some
discipline: We can’t just say, ‘We need to help these people.’ We have
to start separating the mentally ill from so-called normal people,” J.
Warren Cassidy said Tuesday. . . .Cassidy said it is time for the NRA to comment publicly on Newtown and state “that the essential problem is mental illness.”He said gun control proponents “don’t want any compromises” in debate over restricting firearms in the massacre’s wake.“My
point of view I’ve held for a long time is that major parties
advocating for gun control is they want to ban private ownership of
firearms in the U.S. Don’t be deceived that they want to restrict
certain firearms,” he said.